![]() ![]() ![]() Perry's unhappy tenure on Revenge abruptly ended on 8 January 1811. To make matters worse, Perry was plagued by illness. But in June 1810, while en route to Charleston, South Carolina, Revenge lost several spars and suffered considerable damage after battling a severe storm. Then, in the spring of 1810, Perry's ship was ordered to the Washington Navy Yard for repairs preparatory to an assignment in southern waters. After an extended leave in 1806–07, Perry superintended construction of a flotilla of small gunboats in Rhode Island and Connecticut, a duty he considered tedious, until, in April 1809, he received his first seagoing command, the 14-gun schooner Revenge.ĭuring the summer and winter of 1809, Revenge patrolled northern waters as part of a squadron under Commodore John Rodgers. During that period, Perry served on such famous ships as Adams, Constellation, Nautilus, Essex, and Constitution, but he was not involved in any of the memorable engagements of those little known wars. Over the next six years, he participated in the Quasi-War with France and the Tripolitan War against the Barbary pirates. Oliver Hazard Perry was warranted a midshipman in the U.S. ![]() The eldest of five sons and three daughters born to Christopher Raymond and Sarah Alexander Perry, the first son was named after his paternal grandmother's father, Oliver Hazard, and also for his uncle, Oliver Hazard Perry, who had recently been lost at sea. The man who was to lead the Lake Erie fleet to victory during the War of 1812 was born on 23 August 1785, at South Kingstown, Rhode Island. ![]()
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